patientZERO

@VkBrutaliaNWell, if you do that, you're leaving the bottom bit open to the elements and if you pull them off your shelf, you'll get scratches in the CD case ... but only on the bottom. The sleeves were only like $10 for 100, so they're inexpensive. I kept the JILUKA DVDs in the plastic using your zip ripcord method because they had a sticker on the front I wanted to preserve. But I used to work in a used CD shop and everything looks nicer when they're uniform, so I bought the sleeves. Also, it allows me to store bonus CD/DVDs in the same sleeve with the respective album/single because sometimes there's nothing to say what release it's from (like the one I got from ZealLink for Ajna).

@patientZEROwell yea the bottom bit is open but imo if you pull them of your shelve carefully the CDs won't make any scratches on the surface whatsoever so that wouldn't bother me in the slightest...

BUT the idea with storing also the respective shop bonuses like extra DVD's or fotocards etc. in it i must say is pretty cool! ;D

like with the completely blank bonus DVDs i get i usually just rip-off some peace of paper and just write the BAND/release name on it and keep it in a separate box... some goes for fotocards...

so i gotta say i think it would be pretty damn cool to have the shop bonuses together in a sleeve with the actual CD! only problem might be you can't see the backside of the CD anymore and 2nd if you maybe got a DVD and for example a 5 fotocardset if you would slide this all into the protective sleeve and you'd do that with many CDs in your shelve the automatically appearing gabs between the CDs would look kinda weird...

hm... now i am a little bit torn apart cuz on the other hand it would be pretty handy to store everything together but on the other hand it might look shit because of the so appearing gabs between the CDs on the shelves.... GAHHH!! XD

@VkBrutaliaNI'm glad that I've passed along my OCD tendencies. SHARE MY PAIN! I don't have all of the bonuses in the same sleeve, but most of them I do. I got signed photos with both types of Divine Error and a comment DVD, so I put those in their own sleeve instead of trying to mash them all in one sleeve. I didn't want to mess up the photos, but it's nice to have it all together. There's a bit of a gap, but it isn't too glaring. You also have to consider the CDs that aren't full jewel cases that may look a bit funky regardless of how you shelf them, as is the case with Screamer and JILUKA's live DVDs. They're in those clear slim CD cases. Like these: